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Faith in Focus Good Fruit Valerie Schultz Cafeteria Prayers Maurice Timothy Reidy 28 46 the Word Little Children of the Word John W OF MANY THINGS 106 West 56th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 e were an NBC family, the editorial approach had to be Subscriptions: (800) 627-9533 even during the heyday of scrupulously balanced. Above all, it had www.americamedia.org facebook.com/americamag WWalter Cronkite. Every to get the story right in some objective twitter.com/americamag night at 7:00 we’d take our seats in the sense. living room in order to learn what had Broadcast journalism still exists to PRESIDENT AND EDITOR IN CHIEF Matt Malone, S.J. happened that day in places far afield create mass markets for advertisers. But EXECUTIVE EDITORS from Cape Cod. “Don’t you want to because of the proliferation of cable Robert C. Collins, S.J., Maurice Timothy Reidy know what’s going on in the world?” news channels, not to mention online MANAGING EDITOR Kerry Weber my grandmother would ask on the rare news sites, those same networks now LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. occasion when I was watching a movie build those markets not by bringing SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT Kevin Clarke and didn’t want to change the channel. together different demographic groups EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. First it was John Chancellor, then Tom but by severing them from one another EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS Brokaw. The CBS Evening News may and serving up that slice of the pie to Jeremy Zipple, S.J. have led the ratings and Mr. Cronkite their customers. So Fox or MSNBC POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J. might have been the “most trusted will say to the Widget Corporation that ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND VATICAN CORRESPONDENT Gerard O’Connell it “owns” a specific demographic. It is a man in America” in poll after poll, but ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL that didn’t mean people distrusted narrow, demographically homogenous STRATEGY Sam Sawyer, S.J. Mr. Chancellor. We all trusted these audience, to be sure, but it just so SENIOR EDITOR Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. (mostly) men to tell us the truth. happens to be the demographic that ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura Amazing, isn’t it, that so many buys widgets. This might be a successful ASSISTANT EDITORS Francis W. Turnbull, S.J., Joseph McAuley would trust so few with so much? Some business model, but it greatly enfeebles ART DIRECTOR Sonja Kodiak Wilder say it was a “more innocent time.” I the public discourse, for this strategy EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Zachary Davis suspect, though, that any innocence or is either a cause of, or deeply complicit COLUMNISTS Helen Alvaré, John J. Conley, S.J., naïveté Gram and her generation once in, the political polarization of the Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., James T. Keane, John W. Martens, Bill McGarvey, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, possessed had been stolen long before electorate. Margot Patterson, Nathan Schneider, Robert David by the most violent century in history. A similar approach is at work in Sullivan On the other hand, there was a shared political campaigns. Candidates know CORRESPONDENTS John Carr (Washington), An- thony Egan, S.J., and Russell Pollitt, S.J. (Johannes- sense of identity then, perhaps the that what matters most is who votes on burg), Jim McDermott, S.J. (Los Angeles), Timothy result of that shared history, or of some election day and getting those people Padgett (Miami), Steven Schwankert (Beijing), popular mythology or civic religion. But to the polls. Campaigns no longer do David Stewart, S.J. (London), Judith Valente (Chicago) the sense of community was also the this by building as large a network of MODERATOR, CATHOLIC BOOK CLUB result of basic market forces. supporters as possible. The capabilities Kevin Spinale, S.J. Back in the day, as Gram used to say, of today’s complex computer modeling EDITOR, THE JESUIT POST Michael Rossmann, S.J. Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, allow candidates to focus instead on EDITORIAL E-MAIL [email protected] who were mirror ideological opposites, the minority of true supporters they both watched Walter Cronkite. Yes, need in order to be first past the post on PUblISHER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Edward G. Spallone DEPUTY PUblISHER Rosa M. they trusted him. But broadcast election day. Del Saz VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Daniel journalism in the United States, It should come as no surprise Pawlus ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Chris Keller DEVELOpmENT COORDINATOR Kerry Goleski whatever its more noble aspirations that these two trends should benefit BUSINESS OPERATIONS STAFF Khairah Walker, may be, is also a business, and it exists otherwise marginal candidates and the Glenda Castro, Katy Zhou, Frankarlos Cruz in part to create mass markets for occasional demagogue. Like today’s ADVERTISING CONTACT [email protected]; 212-515-0102 SUBSCRIPTION CONTACT/ADDITIONAL advertisers. When there were only three cable news anchor, politicians are not COPIES 1-800-627-9533 REPRINTS: reprints@ television networks, it was the sheer talking to most of us, but to their americamedia.org size of the market that mattered most. Mister Widgets, the relatively few of © 2015 America Press Inc. The networks built those markets by us they need in order to win, whatever bringing together different demographic “winning” means in their markets. That groups, people who rarely agreed on is a deeply discouraging trend. But as anything other than the trust they someone used to say, “That’s the way Cover: Truck stop chaplain Deacon Rich Seveska talks with Abdi Rizak at the Foristell Travel Center had for an anchor or program. To it is.” in Foristell,Mo., in 2012. CNS photo/Lisa John- hold together such a diverse audience, MATT MALONE, S.J. ston, St. Louis Review Contents www.americamagazine.org VOL. 213 NO. 8, WHOLE NO. 5101 SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 MINISTRY ISSUE 14 A DEACON’S EDUCATION Lessons on the universal call to Christian ministry Jay Cormier 21 ON THEIR SHOULDERS The pallium in American Catholic history Gerald P. Fogarty 25 A DEEPER MISSION Making short-term service more effective Michael Simmelink 28 THE POETRY OF CATHOLICISM The daily struggle between absurdity and faith John Savant COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 14 4 Current Comment 5 Editorial 6 Reply All 8 Signs of the Times 12 Column Nouveau Censors James T. Keane 18 (Un) Conventional Wisdom TV Comes of Age Robert David Sullivan 31 Vatican Dispatch In China, Fear of Faith Gerard O’Connell 32 Faith in Focus Good Fruit Valerie Schultz Cafeteria Prayers Maurice Timothy Reidy 28 46 The Word Little Children of the Word John W. Martens BOOKS & CULTURE 37 FILM “A Walk in the Woods” and “Z for Zachariah” OF OTHER THINGS Data-Determinism BOOKS Francis; Katrina;The Fellowship POEM C49 ON THE WEB Full coverage of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States with on-site reporting from America’s editors and contributors. Visit papalvisit.americamedia.org for commentary, photos and a timeline of the papal trip. 37 CURRENT COMMENT pick up and leave. President Maduro closed the border A Union Opportunity with Colombia in late August when three soldiers were The campaign Fight for $15 has had major successes this wounded in a skirmish that he blamed on the Colombian year in efforts to raise wages for fast-food workers, thanks paramilitary. Soon Colombian immigrants were targeted in to its embrace of unorthodox organizing tactics. That a deportation campaign that has been roundly denounced is partly because older strategies for improving working as scapegoating. Mr. Maduro has been the subject of conditions have not worked in the fast-food industry. That intense criticism as the Venezuelan economy suffers from may be about to change. extreme food shortages. Once again, he is pointing the The modern workplace has become “fissured,” say labor finger of blame at outside forces to bolster his own political historians. Innovative business models, like outsourcing standing. Meanwhile, in a bit of bewildering political supervision, help maximize profits but tend to worsen theater, he has pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees. working conditions and wages. Noting that almost three Bishops from Venezuela and Colombia met in early million U.S. workers are now employed through temporary September to discuss the growing animosity between the agencies, on Aug. 27 the National Labor Relations Board two countries. Pope Francis called the meeting a “sign of revised a definition of the term joint employer that has hope,” but unfortunately the bishops in Venezuela do not hamstrung organizing efforts since the Reagan era. seem to have much influence in Caracas. As the country The ruling means that companies cannot obscure their looks to elections in the fall, world leaders should not obligations to employees through franchise agreements or by be afraid to reprimand Mr. Maduro for his increasingly subcontracting staffing to third parties. Unions struggling to desperate and dangerous antics. organize workers will now be able to bargain with the parent company that is ultimately calling the shots. Kendall Fells, organizing director of the Fight for Drilling Down $15, celebrated the ruling by pointing out the obvious: Many environmental activists accused President Obama of “McDonald’s is the boss.... The company controls hypocrisy during his recent trip to Alaska, which focused everything from the speed of the drive-thru to the way on climate change, because of his administration’s approval workers fold customers’ bags. It’s common sense that of offshore drilling permits in the Alaskan Arctic just McDonald’s should be held accountable for the rights of weeks before. Approving a permit for any new production workers at its franchised stores.” of fossil fuel sources, they charge, amounts to accelerating What comes next is up to the national unions currently global warming.
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